Fostering Psychological Safety in Your Team

Last updated September 4, 2019

Course Length

1h 36m

Last Updated

September 4, 2019

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Fostering Psychological Safety in Your Team

Last updated September 4, 2019

Table of Contents

Session 1: 3 Ways Leaders Can Foster Psychological Safety in Teams
49:20 Closed lock icon
Session 2: Assess Your Team’s Level of Psychological Safety
47:33 Closed lock icon

Focus on psychological safety as a crucial starting point for team effectiveness.

Overview

Psychological safety is the belief that you will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. When you have psychological safety, you have the freedom to be vulnerable. You can take risks without feeling a sense of failure or ridicule. Teams that have psychological safety are more innovative, creative, and cohesive because vulnerability will not be held against anyone.

 

In times of confusion or conflict, leaders and supervisors often try to bring teams together by creating a common vision or by clarifying goals and processes. But before these steps can be effective, you need to ensure a high level of psychological safety within your team. Without that foundation, your team will not function as cohesively.

Join us online for this two-part webcast series to learn how to foster a deeper sense of psychological safety within your team.

  • In Session 1, you’ll learn 3 key leadership behaviors that will invite your team to share ideas, take risks, accept mistakes, and create more innovative work.
  • In Session 2, you’ll complete an assessment to measure the psychological safety of your team, and you’ll leave with ideas on how to improve.

Who should attend?

This webcast series is ideal for supervisors and leaders who want to foster psychological safety on their teams to improve team learning, performance, satisfaction, and engagement.
 

Agenda

Webcast 1: 3 Ways Leaders Can Foster Psychological Safety in Teams

To help you understand the importance of psychological safety within your team, Nathan will guide you through the following:

  1. What Is Psychological Safety, and Why Is It Important to Teams? – You will learn how to recognize what psychological safety is and how it impacts team performance, learning, satisfaction, and engagement.
  2. 3 Behaviors that Foster Psychological Safety in Teams – You will learn how the following 3 behaviors can foster psychological safety within your team:
    1. Establishing Shared Expectations and Meaning
    2. Creating Participation that Welcomes All Voices
    3. Responding Productively to Foster Learning

Webcast 2: Assess Your Team’s Level of Psychological Safety

To help you relate the 3 leadership behaviors of psychological safety to your own team, Nathan will guide you through the following:

  1. Psychological Safety Assessment – You will complete an assessment that will help you understand your team’s level of psychological safety.
  2. How to Interpret Results – We will guide you through a conversation about and the analysis of your assessment score to help you understand your results.
  3. Next Steps – Based on your assessment score, you will learn how to use the 3 leadership behaviors to foster psychological safety within your own teams.

 

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Nathan P. Strong

Director of Organizational and Professional Development, University of South Carolina

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